$18k in stolen antlers: poaching on the rise in Wyoming as collectors ‘cheat the system’
The Guardian -

Gathering antlers has been a favorite pastime in the state, but the high dollars they fetch is now putting animals’ lives at riskOn a spring day in April last year, wildlife law enforcement officers in Wyoming made an alarming discovery. While patrolling national forest land in the state’s north-west, they came across an overflowing stack of 40 antlers piled among the trees and concealed with branches.The antlers, they realised, were part of an illegal poaching cache. Collecting antlers has long...

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